A new report, published this week by Animal Aid, describes a series of painful and often lethal laboratory experiments conducted on race horses, mountain ponies and other equines. Many of the experiments are directly, or...
Posted 16 May 2007
As noted by The Independent (24 April 07), the Countryside Alliance’s Countryside Rocks concert has run into a spot of bother as one of their scheduled performers, Robert Wells – the world-famous pianist, singer and...
Posted 24 Apr 2007
National campaign group Animal Aid this week launches Race Horse DeathWatch, a web-based initiative that will make public every on-course Thoroughbred fatality.
Posted 04 Apr 2007
National campaign organisation Animal Aid, which has fought plans to cull the UK’s ruddy duck population for the past ten years, is delighted by Wigan Council’s announcement that it is suspending a local cull and...
Posted 23 Mar 2007
The BBC has formally apologised to Animal Aid more than a year after Radio 4’s Today programme was pressured by the Jockey Club (JC) into dropping a spokesman for the campaign group who had been...
Posted 22 Mar 2007
Racing is facing a crisis with seven horses known to have died on racecourses in just one week. The latest four victims all perished on Monday at Wincanton, Somerset.
Posted 20 Mar 2007
The value to human medicine of laboratory research using chimpanzees is being evaluated in a series of major studies. The first paper finds that such experiments contribute ‘little, if at all, to tangible human clinical...
Posted 20 Mar 2007
Youth4Animals members (Animal Aid's youth group) held a successful demonstration outside Canada House at Trafalgar Square on Saturday. Eight members, aged from 11 to 18, were joined by staff from Animal Aid's Education department and...
Posted 19 Mar 2007
In August 2006, Animal Aid launched a nationwide survey to find Britain's most vegetarian-and vegan-friendly supermarket chain, monitoring more than 600 supermarkets across the UK.
Posted 26 Feb 2007
Big names in the fashion industry are inadvertently using dog fur as trim on their garments. Brands including Tommy Hilfiger and DKNY bought ‘fake’ fur, sourced from China but laboratory analysis found that 24 out...
Posted 26 Feb 2007